Re: [SOLVED] Blue tint on youtube videos. (Nvidia or flash problem)

oz wrote:

I'm seeing the same blue tint problem but I also get another problem. The flash video stays on the screen even when I minimize the browser. Also if I scroll the web page up while the flash video is playing the video will eventually appear above and outside the browser window.

Adobe, in their infinite wisdom, have set the overlay colorkey to black. So the flash content will be visible on anything that's black, if it's the browser window or not. That's how overlays work, stuff gets painted to the colorkey. And it's why one sets the colorkey to a color that's unlikely to be used by anything else. Unless you're Adobe, of course

The libvdpau_trace hack works around this too, by preventing flash to set it's own colorkey.

I beliefe the circumstances of this bug have been explained often enaugh to the adobe people: software decoding, vdpau rendering = bug. Is there actually anybody out there where this combination with vanilla libvdpau does not have this bug?

I mean, I have not heard of one and the only other possibilities are: 1) They are lying for no reason 2) They are too incompetent to test their own software...?

Apparently they "test" on ubuntu 11.04. Does it work with an older libvdpau?

Re: [SOLVED] Blue tint on youtube videos. (Nvidia or flash problem)

Psykorgasm wrote:

...untick the hardware acceleration box in flash settings and make sure no extension is cleaning the main flash settings at exit/startup.

How did you disabled hardware acceleration? I am using Firefox and every time I try to edit someting in the box of flash settings, it's unclicable. Can't change any setting.Dow I have to you chromium to disable hardware acceleration, or I could write something to /etc/adobe/mms.cfg? Do You use Chromium?Thanks in advance.Hopefully HTML5 will be standart soon, much better than Flash.

Re: [SOLVED] Blue tint on youtube videos. (Nvidia or flash problem)

Hmmm, I am using Firefox also.

So, for example, go to a youtube video, right click on the video, select "Settings,,," and it should come up with:Correct?

You cannot un-tick the box? I have no idea why you would not be able to change that...Perhaps try closing your browser, running "flash-player-properties" in terminal, go to "Advanced" tab and under "Browser Data and Settings" click "Delete All" then open your browser and try change the settings again, it may work, may not... worth a shot.

In /etc/adobe/mms.cfg I think it is a good idea to keep it empty at the moment, it could make troubleshooting harder otherwise.Edit: In /etc/adobe/mms.cfg add "EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode = 0" without the quotes. 1am, I shall now force myself for human downtime before I try help any further.

Re: [SOLVED] Blue tint on youtube videos. (Nvidia or flash problem)

I'm getting the same blue tint issue since i updated this morning. At first i thought it was the video too, then i watched more videos, and the same issue there. And on youtube, at first all the HTML5 videos made the browser turn completely blue (BSOD blue), minus the borders and tabs etc. But now HTML5 videos seems to display normally. But the standard youtube player still displays with a blue tint. Haven't tried any fixes yet though. Other video sites display just fine as well, and some don't.

Re: [SOLVED] Blue tint on youtube videos. (Nvidia or flash problem)

(I know they said in Oct 2011 that it was fixed and we should wait for a new release. I am using the flash beta that came out yesterday and on vimeo and many other sites it still does not work. On youtube it does at least...)

Re: [SOLVED] Blue tint on youtube videos. (Nvidia or flash problem)

I will just downgrade, ignore the flashplugin package in pacman.conf, and follow this topic for updates. It would suck if everyone did the same and nobody ends up updating this when adobe fixes the issue

Re: [SOLVED] Blue tint on youtube videos. (Nvidia or flash problem)

Re: [SOLVED] Blue tint on youtube videos. (Nvidia or flash problem)

Hi, couldn't resolve the problem editing /etc/adobe/mms.cfg and I can't edit Flash Configurations in the "popup-box" the only way to get Flash "OK", was downgrading do flash11.1Hopefully not many sites will use flash11.2...

Re: [SOLVED] Blue tint on youtube videos. (Nvidia or flash problem)

I think I might downgrade as well. I'm having yet another issue with this new Flash version where my CPU goes to 100% and the whole browser freezes for about 30 seconds to a minute every time I go to a page that has Flash on it (this despite the fact that I use Flashblock). The process using the CPU is the "plugin-container" or whatever it's called. Something seems really broken with this version.

Re: [SOLVED] Blue tint on youtube videos. (Nvidia or flash problem)

So I've downgraded flashplugin to 11.1.102.63-1, but now Youtube complains that I need to use the most recent (broken) version to watch videos. Is there anything I can do to fix this from my end, or am I just going to have to go without YT? Thanks guys.

"For users who cannot update to Flash Player 11.2.202.228, Adobe has developed a patched version of Flash Player 10.3, Flash Player 10.3.183.18, which can be downloaded here."Performance of the 10.3.183.18 seems OK so far.But it is not in any Archlinux repositories and has to be installed manually:Extract the libflashplayer.so from the "... .linux.tar.gz" inside the "fp_10.3.183.18_archive.zip" to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

Maybe something could be done with this? I've not tested turning off HW acceleration yet, but I'd like to avoid that if possible - flash is slow enough as it is...

Re: [SOLVED] Blue tint on youtube videos. (Nvidia or flash problem)

I suppose it's one solution, but it's not exactly elegant - as others have said, it uses libvdpau_trace for something it's not meant to do :-/ Can you imagine if from this day forth every new Arch user had to find some obscure patch for libvdpau_trace to get something as "simple" as YouTube working?

Re: [SOLVED] Blue tint on youtube videos. (Nvidia or flash problem)

Following some more poking around I've found that I was running without HW-acceleration from the start, and that turning it on using the latest version of flash allows me to watch videos without the blue tinting effect.

Now, the plugin crashes on occasion when maximising videos and I have the colour-keying issue where video content appears outside of the browser window when using a black wallpaper - but it's at least bearable.